The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-23
sxA1L-rox is reported epidemic in Cardiff,

SNALL-Pox is reported epidemic in Cardiff,
Wales.
DUSDAs Dick, the noted New York
patent medicine man, has been declared in
sage.
fHE DENY or gtand jury has returned six
indictments against Sheriff Kramer and
officers under him for false pretenses and
malfeasance in office. They enter general
denial
In Eldorado, Ark, the other day DIR.
Kimball was shot in the back and killed bt
James Baird; with whose brother he had
been quarreling.
GRIFFITHs, Marshall & Co, brokers Of
Minneapolis, Mimi, have suspended. They
acted as Kershaw q Co.'S agents. H. A,
Smith also suspended, with liabilities Of
$4,000. Both failures were due to the
Chicago wheat panic.
THE Prospect Machine and Rngite Com
pany, formerly the GUNNER Engine Com
pany, of Cleveland, o., has made an as
| signment. The capital stock of the cor
poration is S400,000 and is held by leading
citizens in Cleveland. The liabilities are
estimated at 5000 and the assets at
$5OOOO0
A SENSATION was recently caused in Paris
by the abduction of the Countess Mercedes
Martinez -Campos, a young and wealthy
| Cuban heiress. There were reports that
the lady was cOnsenting party and the
abduction was engineered by her lover, who
desired to evade the marriage law.
FIVE hundred men in the garrison at
| Herat, Afghanistan, mutinied June 9, but
were defeated and captured after eighty
men had been killed.
EIGHT hundred houses in Botuschany,
Roumania, have been destroyed by fire and
seven persons killed.
THE French Government has declined tc
take any steps at present looking to o
Mediterranean canal or the deepening OF
| the Seine.
The Wholesale Liquor Dealers National
Association has made an assessment of ten
cents per barrel on old rye and bourbon
whisky for the purpose Of fighting prohibi-
| tion in Texas.
THE steamer Vidette of the Mobile &
New York steamship line went down June
| 13 in the Gulf of Mexico. The officers ano
crew were saved. Loss, 100000.
THE steamer Champlaiu Of the Northern
Michigan line, bound for Cheboygan from
| Chicago burned at midnight on the 10Th,
between Norwood and Charlevoix, at the
mouth of Grand Traverse bay. 1t was
| thought that twenty one lives were lost
either by burning or drowning.
PULITZER's balloon, with four men on
board left St. Louis on the afternoon OF
| the 17th 1t was reported passing over De
:roit, Mich, at midnight.
COLORADO has relaxed it's quarantine sc
far as Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebras-
ka are concerned.
COFFEE suffered another break at New
York on the 18th. There were reports of q
break of five points at Havre and two fail
ures in Brazil.
THE strike of the 200 ore handlers OF
Cleveland, o., ended in a victory for the
men.
TIE storm of the 10th at Grand Forks,
Oak, destroyed the Catholic Church and
the University building. Other buildings
were blown down or damaged. Nolives Were
| lost by the overturning of the train, but
three persons were killed in the town and
| $1,000 worth of damage done.
BRYANT A. CRANDALL, who was supposed
| to have thrown himself over Niagara Falls
has been arrested at Salem, Ore, charged
with perpetrating fraud to secure insur-
aDce on his life.
THE Andover Board of Visitors found
Prof Smyth guilty of heresy The indict-
ments against the other professors were
thrown out. The board said it was not a
question whether Prof. Smyth's beliefs
were in accord with present beliefs, but
whether they were contrary to the creed
! laid down by the founders of the seminary
THE large laboratory of the United States
Electric Light Company at New York, with
its contents, was burned on the nth;
loss. sl50,0OO; insurance full. About one
hundred and fifty persons ayere thrown out
of employment.
FREDERICK W. VANDERBILT's yacht vi
dette foundered the other night outside the
harbor at Pensacola, Fla. All on board